PRUSSIANISM IN INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 12, 9 October 1919, Page 5

PRUSSIANISM IN INDUSTRY

CANNOT PREVAIL AGAINST PUBLIC OPINION PRIME MINISTER ON THE RECENT STRIKE By Telegraph—Prcsa Association—Copyright (Rec. October 8, 7.40 p.m.) London, October 7. In a referenco to tho recent strike, in the couree of a speech at the Mansion House luncheon ti> Lord Allenby, Air. Lloyd George said that the striko had proved that Britain was a real deniocrntic country, and that it wr.s public opinion, not Frussioiiism, in the industrial and economic world, which must prevp.il. Britain had again rendered a deop and lasting service to real freedom by defeating this latest effort to strangle tho community into submission. He thanked the multitudes who hod frustrated the attempt "These multitudes who "Helped to frustrate tho attempt to strangle the community," he added, "proved their efficiency/' Tho Premier then proceeded to affirm that trade unions could uot win without public support. "Oil tho other hand," he said, "the resistance of trade union, demands must satisfy that sense of justice and pair play which is innate in the British peopio." That might sound a commonplace, but he reminded his hearers that there wasa ,-ection of quito honest aud sincere men here and in other countries who, haying grown tired of the process of convincing their fellow-countrymen of the justice of their claims,'had come to the conclusion that more direct and forcible means should be utilised to achieve their purpose. That movement was dangerous to the whole fabric of society, aud must be defeated. 1 Instead of depending on the justice'of Hie case the tendency was to calculate what forces dould be got to support it, and whether these were powerful enough to ride down every obstacle. That was a perilous movement, and every country must demonstrate that it could not succeed—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn, FRATRICIDAL SCHEMES OF EXTREMISTS. (Rec. October 9, 7.35 a.m.) London, October S. The. newspapers warmly endorse Mr. Lloyd George's tribute to the thousands of voluntors, who had proved that they valued liberty and tho prosperity of the country, 'and the determined defeat of tho fratricidal schemes of extremists.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MR. ROBERTS ATTACKS THE RAILWAY LEADERS (Rec. October 8, 10.30 p.m.) London, October 7. Mr. Roberts, the Pood Controller, speaking in London, made a sharp attack on tho railwayman's leaders. He said that secret diplomacy had been used for imposing upon the rank and file the will of leaders who were acting as autocratically an any European State had done. The agreement which they signed on Sunday could have been obtained nine days earlier.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .

THE MENACE OF" SECTIONAL UNREST CALL FOR PROSPEROUS INDUSTRY. (Rec. October 8, 7.50 p.m.) London, October 7, It is understood that all the fourteen members of the Conciliation Committee are willing to serve as tho nucleus of a permanent body. Sir George Askwith, the Conciliation Commissioner, in an interview, paid a tribute, to the remarkable solidarity and patic-nco of tho mediators.' He agreed that .Mr. Gosling's (president of tho Transport Workers) proposal might result in establishing a body which could exercise a restraining influence, but the. first step rested with'the trade unions. It had often been difficult in the past to secure the adherence of one trade to another's judgment:, but tho question of control and responsibility was tho crux of tho whole matter. Tfiero was always tho danger of classing such a body with the Cabinet, with which the final responsibility inevitably rested. Hc'addcd that he considered it impossiblo for Labour to appoint a central executive capable of acting for the whole of trade unionism. It would be necessary to have every section represented. "We cannot hope," ho said, "to see the cotton workers accepting tho decisions of the coal minors. Sectional unrest con.< tinues to be one of the chief dangers to industry. Although the public is greatly relioved by the settlement of the railway strike, there still exists the great iron moulders' strike, affecting the whole of the engineering trades. The most hopeful sign in tho situation is the workers' realisation that they can only attain prosperity with prosperous industry, undisturbed by strikes, and aiming at a maximum production.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

DEMAND OF THE FRENCH RAILWAYMEN MINIMUM OF ,£6 WEEKLY.' (Rec. October 8, 7.40 p.m.)' Paris, October 7. The French railway-men have presenteel a demand for a standard wage, asking for double pay and a war bonus, with a minimum of .EG per week.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn. WASHING-UP NEGOTIATIONS. London, October 7. The Government intends inviting Mr. I. H. Whitley, Deputy-Speaker of the Houeo of Commons, and originator of the Whitley scheme of industrial councils, to arbitrate in the remaining negotiations with the- railwaymen.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LLOYD'S INSURANCE AGAINST RIOTS REDUCED. - London, October C. Lloyd's insurance against damage to property through civil disturbances has fallen to haif-a-crown per cent, per vuar.—Aug.-N.7i. Cable. Assn.